St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-15

quoted to us Blackstone, Coke, and even
deigned to rest his case on Judge Cooley's
decision; who, last summer, sought to
mOnopolize the editorial convention at
Big Stone Lake with his jurisprudence,
and could not tell Judge Spencer, of
the Fourth judicial district, what was
law in his case-we call upon this legal
light to tell us by what authority he
bases his editorial remarks that railroad
property is being sold and enjoined be-
cause of Auditor Wards order that such
property should be taxed. 1t is well
that one should be posted in the law,
we can imagine, but what avails it all if
there is not the capacity or the desire to
apply it at the proper time and the
proper place? A small dose of Dakota
code, Gov. Pierce, sometimes beats all
your other extended authority to death,
and this case that we have Just cited is
case in point exactly.
TIE INSURANCE COMPANIES.
TherH9S one insurance company less.
A life insurance company down at Sioux
Falls, dubbed as the Dakota Mutual
Life association, has gone the prim-
and-for want. Of life. Unlike
pany that busted at Sioux
Falls last winter, no one is
hurt by the failure of this company.
The story of its demise is short, if not
sweet. 1t was organized by John D.
Cameron few years ago, and run on
the boom principle. After holding it Q
short time he sold it to parties from
Iowa, who after short struggle, had to
give it up as a bad job. a man in Min
neSOta, who was insured for $1,000, on
his death received just S59-there being
only about eighteen paying members in
the association. Sioux Falls has plenty
OF insurance companies left, but it is
generally supposed that the balance are
sound. Auditor Ward is putting the in
Surance companies of the territory to a
pretty rigid examination. but he has
nothing to do with the life insurance
companies. These do not come under
the duties of his Office, there being no
provision in the statute for it. Auditor
Ward has refused to grant these life in
Surance companies certificate, or in any
way to recognize them. They are doing
business outside of the auditors office,
and III most cases it is underground
business.
THE YANKToN ASYLUM MATTER.
Last Thursday there was, l am in.
formed, a quiet little matinee held at
YanktOn, and all ON account of the
new trustees of the Dakota hospital for
the insane holding a meeting. Various
reports have gone out as to who the
members of the new board were to be,
but none of them were quite right. Col.
Yale, of Canton, and Mayor Quigley, of
Parker, were appointed to take the
place OF the two members resigned, and
to take the place of the three members
from Yankton county there were ap-
pointed Messrs. Nj. I. Wooley, Robert
Cox and d. n. Gross. The board met
quietly and at once proceeded to BUSH
ness. The new improvements were de-
There is no question but the new board
will work smoothly and things will go
on all right. The governor and auditor
recognize only the new board, and their
accounts will be promptly audited and
paid. l understand that the people of
Yankton are really much pleased at the
turn affairs have taken, and, while they
do not like to call their neighbors
boodlers, yet they were glad to see the
new buildings and Improvements made.
Editor Bowen, of the Yankton Press,
is left badly in the shade. His trueisen-
timents towards the Yankton boodlers,
and the state of affairs at the asylum
have been thrown UP. But this is not
all. just at the moment when he hoped
to have had the governor bulidOZed into
allowing the Improvements to go on
after the fashion of the former chief eX-
ecutives i'll Dakota that Mr.. Bowen has
had to deal with-affairs take turn
and Bowen is left clean out in the cold.
Yankton will get the improvements,
but not all Bowen sauce.
PROHIBITION AND DIVISION.
The question of division, that it was
promised, was to be such an all-absorb-
ing issue about this time. seems to have
died out completely. If it were not for
the prohibition vote there would hardly
be the mention of such thing as vote
on division. Ali interest has actually
died out. and even the rankest division
papers find it hard work to foot
their bazoo, so little interest
pie. But there is one question liable to
be red hot, and that is prohibition. This
question, however, is not confined to
every county, but it is optional with the
county board of commissioners whether
prOhibitory law shall be voted on or
not. A majority of the counties have
decided to take vote on the question,
and in these counties the canvass is
very likely to be exceedingly lively and
interesting. With the progress of civil
lizatiOn the saloon goes with it and be-
comes an established business. With
the disestablishment of this business
there is certain to be warm contest.
While prohibition has often been tried.
in most cases it does not seem to have
been very big success. and the people
of Dakota are very hesitating in adopt
ing such doubtful experiment. Most
of them feel that the best results are to
be derived from careful enforcement
of what laws there now are, and not in
the passage of new laws to be disre-
garded. Dakota is progressive, and
probably too anxious to try new en-
periments, but she will hardly, by a
large majority, try prohibition.
have a pointer for the farmers that 7
cannot refrain from giving. 1t will be
well for farmers to remember that it
was through.a Republican administers
ton that things We're so arranged that
the railroads pay one-twentieth of the
taxes on OHe-third of the property, while
the farmers pay four-ffths of the taxes
OH one-half of the property. and that it
is the Democratic administration which
proposes a remedy, Which is the bet
ter measure for the farmers and which
should they support?
THE LooKER-IN.
A nAEnTA pnnNsEP